Camp Democracy opened on the Mall in Washington on Tuesday, and will run through September 21st. We need you to come and join us now!
Here's what the Washington Post had to say about us this morning:
http://campdemocracy.org/node/234
or
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501225.html
PHOTO: Penny Gamble-Williams, a member of the Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts, performs an opening ceremony at "Camp Democracy." Photo Credit: By Michael Robinson Chavez -- The Washington Post
Check out the schedule of upcoming events:
http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
If you live outside of the Washington, D.C., area and you come, we will find you a free or cheap place to stay. But you can make it easier for us by signing up here:
http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracy
If you live in the DC area, please offer a bed or couch or floor to people who are acting on behalf of all of us by coming to make their voices heard. Please list any space you have here:
http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracy
We are buying radio ads to spread the word. We need your financial assistance. Please contribute what you can:
http://www.campdemocracy.org/sponsor
Listen to Pete Seeger's New 60-Second Recording
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/seeger.mp3
The exciting events at Camp Democracy this coming weekend and through September 21st keep growing. Here's the schedule:
http://www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
Camp Democracy Veterans to Lead March
When: Saturday September 9, 2006
What: Silent March and Vigil around the Capitol Building
Why: To remember the fallen and remind Congress and the public of the human cost of the War on and Occupation of Iraq.
Gather at 9 am at 1st and Independence Southwest corner located 1 block North of Capitol South Metro Stop
Step off at 9:30 am end at 10:30 am
All invited
This Is What Democracy Sounds Like
Listen to this 30-second message from Rev. Lennox Yearwood: MP3
http://www.campdemocracy.org/sites/campdemocracy.org/files/downloads/yearwood.mp3 Please ask radio stations to play it as a Public Service Announcement.
And please send us money, so that we can air it as an advertisement on more stations.
http://www.campdemocracy.org/sponsor
The Pacifica station in DC, WPFW, recorded this audio for us. Please support them.
http://www.wpfw.org
While we are spending billions of dollars to house people in illegal prisons outside the rule of law or human rights, there are 14,000 homeless people in the Washington, D.C., area. Help us stop the closure of the Franklin Shelter!
http://savefranklinshelter.com
Listen to Two of the Speakers Who Have Visited Camp Democracy
Rep. Jim McGovern live from Camp Democracy September 6th, 2006 Listen here.
http://www.pluggd.com/channel/episodes/voices_of_progressive_democrats_of_america
Rep. Barbara Lee live from Camp Democracy September 6th, 2006 Board member and Congresswoman Barbara Lee reporting live from Camp Democracy Listen here.
http://www.pluggd.com/episode/show/rep_barbara_lee_live_from_camp_democracy
CORPORATE MEDIA EXPOSED BY A PROGRESSIVE WHO GOT INSIDE
In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, Jeff Cohen takes you inside TV news and the conservative biases, timidity and tabloidism that dominate it. Few media critics have been afforded an intimate, on-the-job view of the outlets they condemn, but Cohen -- who founded the media watch group FAIR -- spent years at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. He was a senior producer at MSNBC's Donahue during the run-up to the Iraq war, and witnessed war-enabling bias and censorship firsthand.
He tells all in a biting, humorous paperback taking aim at the entire rightwing hot-air brigade that Cohen saw up close: O'Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, Novak, Falwell, etc. (Ann Coulter wouldn't debate him.) The book includes a foreword by Jim Hightower.
MOLLY IVINS says: "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious anecdotes to those that make you wince."
IF YOU LIKED "OUTFOXED," YOU'LL LOVE CABLE NEWS CONFIDENTIAL. The book has won praise from Robert Greenwald, Tim Robbins, Studs Terkel, Bob McChesney and others.
BARBARA EHRENREICH: "A deliciously funny expose." HOWARD ZINN: "Future historians will have this book as a primary text." AMY GOODMAN: "Read this book and fight for change."
HELP MAKE THIS BOOK A BIG SELLER.
EXPOSE THE MYTH OF A "LIBERAL MEDIA."
ASK STORES TO ORDER IT. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE.
http://cablenewsconfidential.com
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